RP - Osmosis
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- Created on: 11-05-19 18:52
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- RP - Osmosis
- Method
- 1. Cut a potato into identical cylinders and get some beakers with different sugar solutions - one should be pure water and the other should be very concentrated sugar solution
- 2. Measure the mass of the cylinders and leave one cylinder in each beaker for 24 hours
- 3. Remove the cylinders - dry with a paper towel - measure the masses again
- 4. If the cylinders have drawn in mass by osmosis - increased mass - if water has been drawn out - decreased mass
- Calculate the % change in mass and then plot a few graphs to compare
- Dependant variable - mass of the potato - Independent variable - concentration of sugar solution
- All other variables - volume, time, sugar type, temp - must be kept the same for a fair test
- Errors - potato wasn't fully dried, the excess water would increase the mass - if water evaporated from beakers, concentration of solution would change
- Reduce effect by repeating the experiment and calculating a mean %change at each concentration
- Osmosis
- Movement of water molecules across a partially permeable membrane from a region of higher water concentration to a region of low water concentration
- Partially permeable membrane has very small holes in it - only tiny molecules (water) can pass - big molecules (sucrose) can't
- Water molecules pass both ways through the membrane because water molecules move about randomly all the time
- As there are more water molecules on one side, there is a steady net flow of water into the region with fewer water molecules - into the stronger sugar solution
- The strong sugar solution becomes more dilute - the water tries to balance the concentration on each side of the membrane
- Osmosis - type of diffusion - passive movement of water particles from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration
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